Composting Toilets

[fastgaz]

So, I tried DIY composting toilet this year, and it worked very well. You take a 5 gal bucket, line it with heavy duty garbage bag, put a toilet seat on it you get from Amazon, and cover your poop completely with composting material (I used coconut fiber based material from Amazon - you add few quarts of water until it's moist).

It worked GREAT. I was dubious when I read it wouldn't smell, but so long as you covered it with a complete layer, it didn't. I mean, if you opened the top and sniffed carefully you might get a bit of smell but unless you did that, it didn't at all.

I didn't pee into the bucket, most sources recommend against that.

And it was pretty hot this year, so I think it was subject to a stress test. I did have a yurt, so maybe it might get hotter in a tent and maybe that may not work as well, but I think an enclosed yurt with little circulation is a bigger challenge than a tent.

In any case, I want to let people know this system works very well.

[Captain Goddammit]

Imagine... lots of today’s so-called burners leaving the playa carrying big bags of shit... what couid go wrong.

[Popeye]

I wandered into 1st camp during EA looking for a Blue Room and found a set of four composting toilets. Made of steel, on a platform 4-5 feet high, perforated steel floor for the dust to come in. A bunch of machinery in a separate compartment behind them. Couldn't get a good look at the machinery but looked like they need to be on a power grid.

[Just_Joe]

I wandered into 1st camp during EA looking for a Blue Room and found a set of four composting toilets. Made of steel, on a platform 4-5 feet high, perforated steel floor for the dust to come in. A bunch of machinery in a separate compartment behind them. Couldn't get a good look at the machinery but looked like they need to be on a power grid.

They are "Biofilter Toilets"
They were at the burn last year and there have been a pair of them at Fly Ranch since last fall.
The only thing mechanical are 12V 3amp drying fans located in the exhaust stacks. At Fly, they are powered with solar and batteries.

[Canoe]

... I didn't pee into the bucket, most sources recommend against that. ...

I saw that for the first time this week.
"Poop is also a lot less smelly and composts much more quickly if it is not mixed with pee."
https://www.treehugger.com/bathroom-des ... ormal.html

[Token]

I don’t think I’ve ever taken a squat without unloading the bladder at the same time.

[Canoe]

I don’t think I’ve ever taken a squat without unloading the bladder at the same time.

That's the point of the design in the link. As long as you're sitting, it's got a 'hidden' urine trap. Their use of the separated, um, products, seems a little bit ambitious, but who knows in the future. The big thing I assume is that they're contaminated with medicines and some of what were additives in food.

[Ratty]

There were 2 big, beautiful, bio toilets at 'Burners without borders' camp. They were right in the area where presentations and activities were scheduled. Beautifully decorated and lit. The only problem i see is non-ADA compliant. No smell whatsoever.